Pakrowskoje Offensive

The Pakrowskoje Offensive was a failed attempt by the Axis Powers to launch an offensive against Soviet forces in Pakrowskoje in present-day eastern Ukraine. 111,000 Axis troops from Germany, Italy, and Romania launched an offensive from Novopskov to halt the Soviet Red Army's advance into the western USSR, and the offensive was one of the few German counteroffensive operations during the Soviet offensives of early 1943. The Germans called off the offensive after four days of heavy fighting, and the Axis losses had already started to pile up by the time that the offensive was called off. The Soviets took advantage of the offensive's failure to encircle the Axis forces in the Novopskov Pocket.